Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, penne and asparagus pesto. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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This pasta dish features asparagus two ways: The stalks are blended into a pesto, and the tips are sauteed. Trim and discard the tough/woody ends of each asparagus spear. A bright and lemony pesto sauce with penne and asparagus.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook penne and asparagus pesto using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Penne and Asparagus Pesto:
- Prepare 1 packages Penne pasta or spaghetti
- Get 1 packages Grape or cherry tomatoes
- Prepare 1 olive oil
- Get Pesto
- Get 5 oz cheese (queso fresco)
- Prepare 10 garlic flavored cracker
- Take 1 bunch Asparagus
- Make ready 1 tbsp olive oil
- Get 2 tbsp cream cheese
- Get 2 tsp dried thyme
- Get 2 tsp rosemary
- Prepare 1 salt
- Make ready 1 pepper
Toss well and dust with a light grating of Parmesan before serving. I like mini penne with pesto because of the little lines or ridges in them, which is great for catching the sauce. Add the asparagus and season with salt and pepper. Any longer and it will lose its bright green color as it will continue to cook once removed from.
Instructions to make Penne and Asparagus Pesto:
- Bring pot of water to boil and add penne pasta. Cook to Al dente, drain and set aside.
- While noodles are cooking, set oven to bake at 425. Cut bottom ends off of asparagus. Put rinsed asparagus and tomatoes on baking sheet and drizzle olive oil all over to coat.
- Roast asparagus and tomatoes for 10 minutes depending on thickness of asparagus. As long as the tips are cooked…the rest of the stalk will be used in pesto. Remove from oven and set tomatoes aside.
- Chop top tips of asparagus about 1" and set aside.
- Crumble cheese and crackers into blender. Chop up remaining asparagus and drop into blender.
- Add olive oil, cream cheese, thyme, rosemary, salt & pepper. Mix till a thick paste. May need to stir and foil it in.
- In large bowl, add penne and half the pesto. Mix. Continue adding more pesto. I still had 1/4 cup left to use for another dish.
- Serve portion of pasta on plate. Garnish with asparagus tips and tomatoes.
- Substitute: I didn't have any pine nuts or sliced almonds. So I used crackers instead. It helps in making it a good thick paste.
Asparagus Stem Pesto The real flavour punch in this all-new recipe is a lemony asparagus stem pesto. This seasonal veggie is in its prime right now and I don't want to A craving for pasta and a well-stocked pantry inspired this weeknight dinner of Springtime Penne with Asparagus Stem Pesto. I've made this recipe for hungry crowds ever since with amazing results. This 'sauce' can be used with any type of noodle, but I recommend penne, macaroni or rigatoni. Rinse asparagus spears and snap off and discard their tough ends.
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